Having psychic abilities that are useless in predicting the outcome of relevant events. Dreams and visions of this nature simultaneously provide enough facts to be disturbing, and too few facts to act upon.

"My brother and I are tele-pathetic, we both predicted that nothing important would happen today."

"If I weren't so tele-pathetic I would have known where in Nebraska the accident was going to happen."

Things were looking up for the movement, but then, as often happens, the protestors became telepathetic. Without speaking a word, they simultaneously decided that it would be best to throw themselves off the cliff into the icy waters below. None survived.